Honor the Cycles

The dance of the cosmos is cyclical. You are being guided to observe the cycles at work in your life. Perhaps you’re seeing the result of something coming full circle, or you’re in a phase that doesn’t seem ideal on the surface. Rest assured that healing follows grief and joy follows despair, as surely as the sunrise follows the dark of night.

As change is the only constant, there is no logical option but to embrace it wholeheartedly. Enter into change, accept it, flow with it, and even celebrate it. This is the path to harmony. Invite harmony into your life now by honoring the cycles of life.

According to ancient astrology systems, we are now in the midst of a period called the Kali Yuga that lasts 1000 to 2000 years. By nature, this is a cycle of destruction. Just as winter is the season when the earth is at its furthest point from the sun, the Kali Yuga is a time when human consciousness is furthest from divine illumination. And just as springtime’s earliest flowers prepare to unfurl and bloom even in the harshest winter weather, a renaissance of peace, love, and wisdom is now stirring within the hearts of humans in every culture and on every continent.

Yours is one of these hearts. The very fact that you hold this card in your hand indicates that you are awake to the springtime of human consciousness and are among its earliest blooms. Even though it may be challenging to understand it in a logical or linear way, you may sense that the confusion and discord of the Kali Yuga are necessary in the grand cycle of time It destroys the old to make room for the new and brings what isn’t working to light so we can create new ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet.

Fear not contraction for it leads to expansion. Fear not the exhale for it leads to the inhale. Fear not death for it leads to life. Like the Sumerian goddess Inanna, go deeply into the darkness of the underworld so you can emerge victoriously into the light.

You can consciously enter into the cyclical dance by charting the moon, star gazing, planting a garden, celebrating the seasons, and observing the constant changes in every aspect of the natural world.

To connect with the wisdom of this card, stand with your feet hip or shoulder distance apart. Place your hands on your hips or relax them along your sides and begin to move your hips in a horizontal figure eight. Continue this movement until you feel inspired, present, and one with the infinitely cycling wisdom of the Cosmic Dance.
Notice how the moon waxes and wanes. The sun moves across the sky until it sets and gives way to the night. The earth grows green, then brown, then green again. You ar a child of earth and cosmos, and a radiant strand of this glittering tapestry of change. Pay attention to your ever-shifting feelings, intentions, and desires and honor your ever-changing needs.